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Task Graph Generation for Heterogeneous UAV Swarms in Partially Observable Adversarial Environments.

Wenxin Li1, Yongxin Feng1

  • 1School of Information Science and Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang 110158, China.

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This study introduces a novel task graph generation method for heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms operating in complex environments. The approach enhances task organization and execution feasibility for improved swarm performance.

Keywords:
UAV swarmpartial observabilityresource constraintstask generationtask graph

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Area of Science:

  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Distributed Systems

Background:

  • Heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms face challenges in partially observable adversarial environments.
  • Online task generation must account for noisy observations, platform constraints, resource limitations, and task dependencies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel task graph generation method for heterogeneous UAV swarms.
  • To convert local observations, target beliefs, and resource states into executable task graphs with resource semantics and inter-task relations.

Main Methods:

  • Constructing a candidate task graph in belief and resource spaces.
  • Employing an offline search teacher for evaluating trajectory particles, resource feasibility, and interaction values.
  • Utilizing a relation-biased graph attention network for online task graph generation.
  • Implementing a task manager for filtering, dependency repair, conflict resolution, and resource checking.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method improves structural generation quality and execution feasibility under complex observation pressure and adversarial strategies.
  • Demonstrates a 5.83% improvement in task-graph utility, 5.41% in task-edge F1-score, and 2.68% in executable-graph ratio compared to Graphormer.
  • Achieves a 35.14% reduction in the infeasible-task ratio.

Conclusions:

  • Combining an offline search teacher with resource-constrained graph modeling offers an effective task organization mechanism for heterogeneous UAV swarm planning.
  • The method enhances the performance and reliability of UAV swarms in challenging operational scenarios.